Scam Alert: New Bitcoin Scam (Maybe The Smartest Way Ever)
Recently, several people received e-mails from unknown individuals indicating that they have received an amount of BTC that was supposedly requested by the victim.
Our experts were contacted by one of the victims who revealed that they attempted to follow the scammer’s instructions and received a sample transaction worth about $50 USD, but were blocked when attempting to withdraw the entire balance due to a limit on the withdrawn amount that required them to pay a fee of approximately $1,000 USD equivalent in BTC, after completing this step the victim stated that the balance was not transfered to their wallet making them lose the fee that they deposited.
This new technique of scamming, in which the victim trusts the scammer after receiving a sample transaction and then receives 20 times the amount back, was recently used on several victims, resulting in the theft of millions of dollars.
This has nothing to do with the wallet’s security or a hacking attempt, but the primary reason for such scams to be so successful is the lack of awareness among wallet users who trusted the Scammer without conducting their own research.
